Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 13:48:34 -0700
From:      John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
To:        Ron Klinkien <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unstable stable-release?
Message-ID:  <20010531134834.O23522@johncoop>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c0ea12$30358a60$0304a8c0@smalweer.nl>; from ron@zappa.demon.nl on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 13:42:16 -0700
References:  <000701c0ea10$671e7700$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> <20010531133830.M23522@johncoop> <000c01c0ea12$30358a60$0304a8c0@smalweer.nl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2001.05.31 13:42 Ron Klinkien wrote:
> Thanks, will try that ( if i can compile the kernel before it panics
> that
> is..)
> 
> Tomorrow I swap memory hardware, and maybe go back to 4.3-release to
> isolate the problem...
> 
> Ron.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Merryweather Cooper" <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
> To: "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Unstable stable-release?
> 
> 
> > On 2001.05.31 13:29 Ron Klinkien wrote:
> > >
> > > For the last few days my server is very unstable,
> > > it panics mostly when compiling kernel and/or world.
> > >
> > > I had also an fxp0 intel card added, but after reading about
> > > miibus problems, changed it to an xl0 type, it made no difference.
> > >
> > > I cvsupped/rebuild today (31 may)
> > >
> > > The last one is:
> > >
> > > savecore -N /kernel /var/crash
> > > savecore: reboot after panic: vm_page_insert: already inserted
> > > savecore: system went down at Thu May 31 22:10:20 2001
> > > savecore: no dump, not enough free space on device (227514
> available,
> > > need
> > > 297068)
> > >
> > > As you can see, I have to create some space before I can give more
> > > details...
> > >
> > > In the meantime can anyone give a pointer where to look?
> > > Still hardware or am I not the only one?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ron.
> > >
> >
> > I'm definitely no kernel expert, but in the past week or so I've had
> > crashes updating/building ports with recent kernels.  As an ad hoc
> > solution (no guarantee it either:  1) points to the actual problem;
> or
> > 2) really works), I've increased the size of PMAP_SHPGPERPROC (which
> > appears to default to 200).  This seems to have made the
> vm_page-related
> > panics disappear, and also greatly improved the responsiveness of
> > mozilla-0.9,1.  But, most definitely, YMMV . . .
> >
> > jmc
> >
> >

I was able to rebuild my kernel by forcing a boot to kernel.GENERIC,
recompiling world and kernel under it, and rebooting.  YMMV.

jmc


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010531134834.O23522>